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Adela

by Aleister Crowley

Jupiter Mars P Moon
VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910.
Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue
Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl,
As if the dread god, charioted anew
Came conquering, his amazing disk awhirl
To war down all the stars. I see him through
The hair of this mine own Italian girl,
Adela
That bends her face on mine in the gondola!

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In Spite Of War

by Angela Morgan

In spite of war, in spite of death,
In spite of all man's sufferings,
Something within me laughs and sings
And I must praise with all my breath.
In spite of war, in spite of hate
Lilacs are blooming at my gate,
Tulips are tripping down the path
In spite of war, in spite of wrath.
"Courage!" the morning-glory saith;
"Rejoice!" the daisy murmureth,

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Desert

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Lamentations alone cannot stop
the bleeding of the land at the ankles,
nor stop the tears of Deluge

Grief matters little in a prophesied
pogrom, for a general death is
not reckoned with evil —

And prophecies shall remain with rain
forty days and forty nights;

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War Is Never Over

by Cecil L. Harrison

War is never over
Thought the treaties may be signed
The memories of the battles
Are forever in our minds

War is never over
So when you welcome heroes home
Remember in their minds they hold
Memories known to them alone

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The Female Of The Species

by Rudyard Kipling

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail,
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag, the wayside cobra, hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can,
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail -
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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Recent War Poems

The truth about War

by Saleh Ben Saleh

Some wars are fought for honour,
and some for wealth and greed.
But the guilt that man does carry,
Will make his heart bleed.

Some hearts are full of hatred,
and some just seek revenge,
but the ones blood related,
have vowed to avenge.

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My poem to our defenders of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)

by Slava P, aka Maximus Decimus Meridius

Небо чисте, сонце ясне
День здаеться бути прекрасним
Да щось коробить душу,
Мабудь це війна, що залишае сушу.

Йде Москаль на Неньку
Бодай-тобі здих!
Та наші солдатики
Відстоять свій поріг!

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Lost Souls.

by Laurence Argyll Simon Noond

From a Beacon high; beneath a dark sky,
To hear the voices of lost souls cry,
We were to young to fight and die.
Mothers and Lovers, Wives and others,
Mourning the loss of Sons and Lovers.
From trenches they poured,
Through mud they clawed,
Shot down in a hail of lead,
Brave young men; all lay dead.
Bullet shattered body and head.

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Normandy

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Normandy is a different story,
A story for another day,
A tale by moonlight.
We tell it either way:
In high or low tide
When the waves of
Utah
Omaha
Gold
Juno

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This Waste!

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Disconsolate clouds above us
Wince at the rib-image cracks of lightning.
Billowing smokes of ashes eddy at the
Foot of this huge necropolis, replete with hate.
We mourn the loss of lustres ...
This Waste!
With insidious revelry, rodomontade of
Stripped masquerades besiege the crevices of our brook;
Our daughters, near insane, eviscerate themselves of
Enlarged yolk...

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